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NANCY CHODOROW FEMINIST SOCIOLOGIST AND PSYCHOANALYST ProfileSummary Full name: Nancy Julia ChodorowBorn: January 20, 1944Graduated: Radcliffe College 1966Worked as a professor in the University of CaliforniaPart of the International Psychoanalytical Association Academic Career 1973: Wellesley College1974-1986: Santa Cruz1975: Earned PhD Awards Chodorow is now at the University of California at Berkeley, and she continues her controversial theories that psychoanalysis and feminism have generated (Rhode, 1990). Feminism andPsychoanalytic Theory PSYCHOANALYSIS the method and theory directed towards the investigation and understanding of how we develop and experience unconscious fantasies and how we construct and reconstruct our felt past in the presentapposite source of feminist theorizing

OEDIPUS COMPLEX(Freud) From the myth of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, who is the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of ThebesAttraction and rivalry son’s feelings towards his mother and anger towards his father

OEDIPUS COMPLEX(Chodorow) distinguished from a mother and identified with the father (shift in role identification)“Personality is a result of a boy or girl’s social relational experiences from earliest infancy.”

Girls are closer to their mother than boysBoys surrender their mother as a primary love- object and distance themselves from her. Must undergo differentiation process Masculinity is a precarious achievement founded on the repression of qualities deemed feminine.Femininity is characterized by flexible boundaries, is founded on relation and connection and is with a comparatively secure sense of gender identity.

ELECTRACOMPLEX feminine Oedipus attitudecame from a Greek myth coined by Carl Jung in 1913explains the theory of Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual development of females

ELECTRA COMPLEX(NANCY CHODOROW) Continuity in the role identificationArgues that young girls remain mother- identified even after Oedipus complexFemale identity is a direct process

SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES THE REPRODUCTIONOF MOTHER She considers the ways in which the women’s roles have changed radically, evolving and over previous decades

cited her theories based on the works of Sigmund Freud, Karen Horney and Melanie Kleinwe are born bisexual and that the child's mother is its first sexual object according to Freud’s assertionchild forms its ego in reaction to the dominating figure of the mother according to Melanie and Karen Horney son identifies with his fatheroccurs during the phallic stage from 3-5 years oldRevolves around a child’s wish to possess the parent of the opposite sex while, simultaneously, wishing to eliminate the parent of the same sex who is perceived as a rival. “The nature and quality of the social relationships that the child experiences are unconsciously appropriated, internalised and organised by him/her and come to constitute his/her personality.” The child experiences a oneness with its mother more complications with male developmentinternally the boy tries to reject his mother and deny his attachment by identifying with a "cultural stereotype of the masculine role"Father- mother- child triad A model “drawn solely from the universality of sex differences" is unconvincing.The crucial factor in socialization of both genders is the role played by the mother. daughter’s feeling towards her father and anger towards her mother daughter identifies herself through her mother occurs during the analogous stage from 3-5 years old Jessie Bernard Award of Sociologists for Women in Society for the book The Reproduction of Mothering and which Contemporary Sociology listed in the 1990's among the ten most important books of the past twenty-five years Distinguished Contribution to Women and Psychoanalysis Award from the American Psychological AssociationL. Bryce Boyer Prize of the Society for Psychological Anthropology for her book The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and BeyondThe Power of Feelings : Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture.

they both base their theory around the concept of the Oedipal crisis as developed by Freud

mothering as a production of ‘socially stimulated psychological process’ significance of child’s first identification with its mother identity formation is seen as a process of socialization a girl cannot and does not completely reject her mother in favour for men and the development of the gender identity with the mother is on going

mothering as a production of ‘socially stimulated psychological process’

more on the absence of a father and how a boy\'s gender identification is developed as a result both girls and boys will feel hostility towards the mother for not fulfilling their oral needs, ‘feeding them at the breast, causing arousal and then forbidding their sexual desires’ it is a crucial stage for males the development during the Oedipal stage is fundamentally different for boys and girls significance of child’s first identification with its mother Chodorow seems to agree to the basis of Freud's theories, but argues that feminists should make revisions for a variety of reasons this maybe explains the differing stress placed upon the authority of the mother or father in the parenting role centers on the idea of the nuclear family being the general environment for child rearing Father encourages the child in moving towards the appropriate gender roleThe girl then becomes a separate individual through ‘secondary identification’ Girls do not give up the pre-oedipal relationship completely, she does not completely reject her mother in favour of men but continues her relationship of attachment to her. Women are inherently heterosexual. She continues to refer to the mother's mothering role in the family as more crucial than the fathers, in the child’s development of gender identity